COLLECTOR-TARGETED, MEMORABILIA-BEARING TRADING CARD SET WITH BORDERLESS EDGE PORTIONS

摘要

Disclosed is a collector-targeted, memorabilia-bearing trading card set. Each comprises a plurality of cards originating from and assembleable into a set. Each card is formed from at least two layers of material, a first layer being at least a portion of memorabilia having a visual attribute exposed on one side of the card and a second layer that comprises a substrate providing an opposite side surface of the card. The opposite side surface has indicia conveying information related to the memorabilia of the first layer and associating it with the set from which it originated. Each of the cards has a perimeter, at least a portion of which includes a cut edge of the first layer with a borderless appearance. The memorabilia attribute is positioned to have a portion of the attribute divided between at least two of the cards and extending across adjoining, cut edge portions of at least two cards of the set. Indicia may also provide an identifier unique to each card that facilitates the identification of all cards in a unique set made from a previously-unitary visual attribute. Also disclosed is the use of a separate, electronically-stored image of the complete set, such as a digital photograph taken prior to the attribute being divided, remotely viewable by a collector and associated with the unique identifier of each card of the set. A remotely-accessible registry of the unique identifier of each set and each associated card thereof allows a collector to register ownership of a card and subsequently transfer registration of the card to another collector and may facilitate the location and exchange of cards so that multiple cards from a unique set may be reassembled into a collection of a single collector.